dust-choked

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The mantle above the fireplace is lined with several dust-choked photographs — Billy in Little League, pudgy and smiling; Billy's parents at their wedding surrounded by anonymous relatives; Billy and his parents posing in front of a nameless ocean; a copy of Billy's mother's obituary.

The plane carrying the children was stopped moments before it was scheduled to take off from Abéché, a small, dust-choked city that is the base of operations for dozens of aid groups working in eastern Chad.

In this dust-choked region, long seen as an increasingly barren wasteland decaying into desert, millions of trees are flourishing, thanks in part to poor farmers whose simple methods cost little or nothing at all.